triactantial

English

Etymology

From tri- +‎ actantial.

Adjective

triactantial (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Having three actants (such as subject, direct object, and indirect object),
   • 1988, Julio Calvo Pérez, Perceptual and Topological Criteria in Linguistics Description, Publicacions de la Universitat de València

     S- A Juan se le permite venir
     F- On permet Jean de venir
     E- John is allowed to come by
     G- Johannes ist erlaubt vorbeizukommen
     All of these expressions contain an explicit triactantial (3-place) performative to allow, […]

   • 2002, Winfried Boeder, Philologie, Typologie und Sprachstruktur: Festschrift für Winfried Boeder zum 65. Geburtstag, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated:

     ... are my proposed semantic classes of Georgian deponents, with examples of each type : TYPE I . base trivalent transitive, no relative DV
     The first group comprises verbs of giving and communicating, that is, fundamentally triactantial verbs ...